Hi team,

I'm working on IBM Security Verify, using IBM's APIs to add/remove users within groups. When I use the API to add or remove a user from a group, the end user automatically receives a confirmation email. My goal is to prevent this from happening.

For completeness, here is the API call I am using:

https://{tenant}/v2.0/Groups/{groupID}

Body:
{
  "schemas": [
    "urn:ietf:params:scim:api:messages:2.0:PatchOp"
  ],
  "Operations": [
    {
      "op": "add",
      "path": "members",
      "value": [ { "type": "user", "value": "userID" } ] 
    }
  ]
}

However, if I perform this operation through the administration console, I can ensure that the user does not receive any confirmation email.

Can you please help me achieve the same behavior via API?
Thanks for your support!

Hello Carmine,

The following is the API documentation:

https://docs.verify.ibm.com/verify/reference/patchgroup

The following is an excerpt from that documentation:
---

The following example is a patch request to replace the group's displayName, remove a member, and add new members. Notice also that the example shows how you can specify the notifyType if you want to.

NotifyType is an optional attribute that denotes the notification type. If not present, the EMAIL notification is used.Specify NONE if no notification to affected users is required.

---

So you need to add the 'notifyType' attribute and set the value to 'NONE' to prevent the email from being sent when you update the group.

Hi Jack,

Now it works. Thanks a lot!